About
My practice is centred on our connection to the domestic environment and our emotional engagement with things. Working with photographs, text, drawings and projection, I create narratives in books and boxes, films and installations.
After studying Geography at Exeter University and teaching English in Sudan, I worked as an editorial photographer for many years and then as a picture editor, before wanting to return to the roots of production and a physical relationship with materials. I began formal art training with a foundation course at City Lit, and then an MA in Book Arts in 2015 at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Based now in a studio in Hackney, I make works that reveal the stories behind familiar and familial objects. I layer the analogue and the digital – photographs, drawings and found imagery – with text taken from everyday conversations and technical reports, in order to build up a narrative and reveal the emotions and stories behind objects. Persistent themes have explored memory, absence and loss, as well as ideas of the seen and unseen, historical pain and present-day reparation.
Awards & nominations
2022 | What Is Left – That also goes wins second place (Animation) in the Women Over 50 Film Festival. |
2021 | Chair Stories No 6 shortlisted by the École des Beaux-Arts for the Prix Bob Calle. |
2015 | Turn the Page Graduate Award. |
Book fairs & events
2015-2024 | Artists’ Bookmarket, Edinburgh. |
Small Publishers Fair, London. | |
BABE Book Fair, Bristol. | |
Pages Artists’ Book Fair, Leeds. | |
Turn the Page Artists’ Book Fair, Norwich. | |
Society of Bookbinders, Book Arts Day, London. | |
2019 | Guest speaker at Contemplating Artists’ Books Now, British Library. |
Collections
Books are housed in private and public collections, including the Artists Book Collection, Tate Britain; the Bodleian Library; the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Library; École des Beaux Arts, Paris; the Maryland Institute of Art, USA; Camberwell College of Art Library Artists Book Collection; Winchester School of Art Library Artists Book Collection; New Voices collection at Pages, Leeds.
Selected exhibitions
Edge, LCBA.
2024 | What Is Left, with Heather Rigg, One Paved Court, Richmond. |
2023 | The Shape of Things, Gallery3, Margate. |
2017-2024 | Open Studios, The Chocolate Factory N16. |
2018 | Remind Me To Remember, OpenHand OpenSpace, Reading. |
2015 | The Double Page Spread, Chelsea College of Arts Library, London. |
2000 | The Garden of England, Photofusion, London. |
1997 | The Garden of England, Hereford Photography Festival. |
1988 | Two Families, The Photographers Gallery, London. |
1984 | Sudan, Photogallery, St Leonards-on-Sea. |
1983 | Convent Gardens, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. |